Copepteryx(Plotopteridae)(2011 )

Copepteryx

 

This model was made for the special exhibition of  The Mizunami Fossil Museum in this summer.
I sculpted this work with the supervision of  Hiroshige Matsuoka(Kyoto university), a researcher of  fossil birds.

Usually, Plotopteridae had been expressed look like to penguin. But this time, we attempted to reconstruct as the style of Pelecaniformes.

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The Journey in Germany 2

The Paleontological Collection of Tübingen's university

April 4, 2011

I bought these past cards and brochures.

Mosasaur tote bag

Natural History Museum. Kishiwada City's original Mosasaur tote bag.

Illustrated by Takashi Oda.
On Globidens, there isn't enough material for reconstruction.
So,Globidens's body is not drawn.

Illustrated by Hitomi Terasaki, Musubi Matsumoto.

These illustrations were supervised by Takuya Konishi.

The Journey in Germany 1

I went to Germany from 1st to 8th in April, and visited several museums.


Museum für Naturkunde
 April 1-2, 2011

Zoo-Aquarium Berlin

Europasaurus holgeri (2011)

Europasaurus holgeri
　
Length 60cm 
scale 1/10

 

Mainly reference

On the shape of Europasaurus
The 3D skeleton exhibition at "The Gigantic Dinosaur Expo 2006" in Japan, and the official guide book.
"Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur" Sander, P. M., Mateus, O., Laven, T., Knötschke, N.

On the muscle of the back
"Reconstruction of the Thoracic Epaxial Musculature of Diplodocid and Dicraeosaurid Sauropods" Daniela Schwarz-Wings

On the number of nail
"steps in understanding sauropod" joanna L. Wright

The others
"Pneumaticity and soft−tissue reconstructions in the neck of diplodocid and dicraeosaurid sauropods" DANIELA SCHWARZ, EBERHARD FREY, and CHRISTIAN A. MEYER

On pterosaurs
"The first dsungaripterid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian of Germany and the biomechanics of pterosaur long bones" MICHAEL FASTNACHT

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Stegosaurus armatus

Stegosaurus armatus   (2007)

Length 40cm
Scale 1/20

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Pteranodon sternbergi

Pteranodon sternbergi 　(2007) 
(Geosternbergia sternbergi)
Wing span 40cm
Scale 1/20

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